Thailand’s student movement has reignited, as young people across the country defy threats from the military-backed government to take to the streets and call for the resignation of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha. In what was the biggest demonstration since the pandemic began, about 3,000 people gathered at Bangkok’s Democracy Monument on Saturday, according to organizers.
Continue Reading A Virginia high school named for Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee will be renamed to honor the late US Rep. John Lewis, effective this fall, the local school board said Thursday. The Fairfax County School Board held a one-month period of public comment on possible new names, and held a virtual town hall meeting and
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Amid concerns about staying safe through a global pandemic, hundreds of millions of people across the world are also worrying about how they will get their next meal. The United Nations reports that Covid-19 could double hunger in developing nations, pushing 265 million people to the brink of starvation. Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow has dedicated his life
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso family is waiting for their 19-year-old daughter’s Covid-19 test results while making her funeral arrangements. Dariana Rubio was having trouble breathing Monday afternoon, after multiple days experiencing cold-like symptoms. “It started off kind of like a cold,” Maria Rubio, Dariana’s mother, said in Spanish. “One day she was feeling
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More than 150 prominent US medical experts, scientists, teachers, nurses and others have signed a letter urging political leaders to shut down the country and start over to contain the surging coronavirus pandemic. “The best thing for the nation is not to reopen as quickly as possible, it’s to save as many lives as possible,”
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EL PASO, Texas — Located just blocks away from Southwest University Park is the Powerbull Bat Company. It’s a baseball bat manufacturer that is actually licensed by Major League Baseball. The company is owned by Raul Salazar and his business partner, Kurt Gross. Salazar and Gross both had a love for baseball and they weren’t
Continue Reading Mike Adams, the former University of North Carolina Wilmington professor who angered the campus community on Twitter, was found dead in his home Thursday afternoon, according to the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office. Adams was found dead and alone in his home during a welfare check at about 2 p.m., Jerry Brewer, a public information
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A 26-day-old baby in Pennsylvania tested positive for Covid-19 following an autopsy, Berks County Acting Coroner Jonn Hollenbach told CNN Thursday. Hollenbach said the baby girl did not necessarily die from Covid-19 and the cause of death remains under investigation. There was no suspicion of foul play and a toxicology screening has been ordered, he
Continue Reading A Massachusetts restaurant owner has apologized and eliminated a dress code policy after garnering backlash from residents and local politicians, who called the policy racist. Nathan Bill’s Bar & Restaurant, located in Springfield, Massachusetts, had previously banned items such as durags and baggy pants as part of its dress code policy. While the dress code
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Click here for updates on this story Miami, FL (WFOR) — It’s not uncommon to see an exotic car driving through the streets of Miami so the yellow Lamborghini that pulled to a stop in North Miami Beach did not look too out of place. The reason it was there however was truly special. It
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES, CA (KCBS/KCAL) — Parents are suing Gov. Gavin Newsom for his order to close schools during the coronavirus pandemic. Harmeet Dhillon, an attorney and the national committeewoman of the Republican National Committee for California, is leading the charge. “This is tragic and it is also a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DALLAS, TX (KTVT) — When Adriana Gallegos took her son to get tested for COVID-19 at a children’s clinic, his results came back within 20 minutes. Meanwhile, she said her firefighter husband and fellow firefighters had been waiting days to get their results from city-funded tests and missing
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Scattered storms will continue across the area tomorrow and the weekend. Best chance for heavier rain will be just to the west of us in western New Mexico and Arizona. Temps will remain in the low to mid 90’s (near normal for this time of year). The added humidity will make it feel a bit
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO, IL (WBBM) — Dramatic video showed a nurse being attacked recently on the Chicago Transit Authority Red Line by a man witnesses say was ranting about the pandemic. Another rider recorded this cellphone video. It starts with a man in a black shirt standing over the hospice
Continue Reading Coronavirus is set to become a leading cause of death in the U.S. Even though the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cannot start ranking leading causes of deaths until the end of the year — in order to get a full year’s worth of data — statisticians at the agency told CNN they
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EL PASO, Texas — Accused El Paso Walmart gunman Patrick Crusius entered a written plea of not guilty late Thursday to scores of federal hate crime and gun charges he faces stemming from the mass shooting. He also waived the right to a formal arraignment hearing – which ironically had been scheduled for Aug. 3
Continue Reading More evidence is emerging to underscore that the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine does not help Covid-19 patients. A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday found that hydroxychloroquine — given either alone or in combination with the antibiotic azithromycin — did not improve the conditions of hospitalized patients with mild-to-moderate Covid-19. The
Continue Reading Mothers infected with Covid-19 are unlikely to pass the infection to their newborns when appropriate health precautions are taken, according to a study published Thursday in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. Researchers reported no cases of viral transmission among 120 babies born to 116 Covid-positive mothers, even when both shared a room and the
Continue Reading In the early morning hours of March 13, police in Louisville, Kentucky, arrested a suspected crack cocaine dealer by the name of Jamarcus Glover. Glover was no kingpin. His arrest would not have made national headlines. But having him in handcuffs represented a key moment in a monthslong narcotics probe. Had it ended there it
Continue Reading A climber died at Glacier National Park in Montana after falling several hundred feet from a ridge known as the Dragon’s Tail. The 20-year-old man, identified as Josh Yarrow, was attempting to retrieve a backpack on Tuesday evening when he fell, the National Park Service said in a statement. A climbing partner saw Yarrow fall
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The U.S. on Thursday surpassed 4 million officially recorded Covid-19 cases — and a quarter of that count came in just the last 15 days. The country’s rising daily rate of confirmed coronavirus cases, along with a near-record number of hospitalizations, signals the US is far from containing a virus that is straining hospitals and
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After four delays of its release — including the most recent one due to coronavirus — “The New Mutants” has become almost a running joke in movie circles, the film that exists but no one gets to see. Small wonder the film’s Comic-Con@Home panel on Thursd ay followed its latest scheduled premiere date, Aug. 28,
Continue Reading NEW YORK, NY — At one point Larry Kelly was considered the sickest patient at Mount Sinai hospital in New York. A day after being admitted, he was put on a ventilator as Covid-19 ravaged his lungs. He suffered seizures, and when his condition worsened his wife had to stop doctors from pulling the plug.
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EL PASO, Texas — An elementary school nurse is one of El Paso’s latest fatalities due to the coronavirus, according to the local teachers’ union. “Genevieve Martinez, the Nurse at Barron Elementary died this morning of Covid-19 after 14 days of fighting this damned virus in the hospital,” the El Paso American Federation of Teachers
Continue Reading Two homes owned by Jeffrey Epstein and cited in court documents as some of the locations where Epstein was accused of sexually abusing young women are now for sale for a combined total of roughly $110 million, according to the properties’ listing agents. Epstein’s Upper East Side mansion is listed at $88 million, according to
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EL PASO, Texas — A second El Pasoan has been arrested, just hours after the first, on animal cruelty charges after police said he left his dog outside in the heat and sun to die. 24–year-old Miguel Angel Valencia was being held Thursday on $5,000 bond in the downtown jail. Investigators said they recently found
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WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump says he has scrubbed his planned Republican National Convention scheduled for Florida next month, citing a “flare-up” of the coronavirus. Trump’s formal renomination will still go forward in North Carolina. Trump said Thursday of Jacksonville, “To have a big convention is not the right time.” Trump moved parts of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEW ORLEANS, LA (WGNO) — From Tulane to Xavier to UNO to Loyola, they’re getting ready for the college crowd to return. As you’d figure, returning to any school during the pandemic will look different. Adjustments. WGNO’s Bill Wood goes back to school to see what campus will
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ROGERS, AR (KFSM) — Walmart’s LPGA tour event will go on without fans watching this year due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Event organizers for the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship presented by P&G announced Thursday (July 23) that the event scheduled for August 24-30 will be contested without
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